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WD to pay $525 million to Seagate

article published on 21 November, 2011

Western Digital has been hit with an arbitration court ruling ordering the drive maker to pay rival Seagate $525 million. The decision comes as all drive makers are reeling from heavy flooding in Thailand that has disrupted up to 40 percent of all hard drive production to the entire world. Although the case will head to an appeals court soon, the original suit alleged "misuse" of confidential ... [ read the full article ]

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Xplorer4
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_ 		22. November 2011 @ 14:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow what did I miss? It would be nice if the article mentioned what the basis of the lawsuit was.
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_ 		22. November 2011 @ 17:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It does mention why the suit,a former seagate executive gave insider secrets to western digital,tho can't think why a hdd would be secret..lol..apart from platter tech improvement
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_ 		22. November 2011 @ 17:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Xplorer4:
 Wow what did I miss? It would be nice if the article mentioned what the basis of the lawsuit was.
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 Although the case will head to an appeals court soon, the original suit alleged "misuse" of confidential information, most notably trade secrets from a former Seagate executive.

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